Program Manager
hace 21 horas
Barcelona
We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead medium-to-large scale Firmware, Firmware Solutions, and Embedded Systems programs. The successful candidate will act as the primary customer-facing leader, ensuring delivery excellence, stakeholder alignment, governance, and predictable execution across multiple concurrent initiatives. Key Responsibilities: Program Leadership Governance • Oversee delivery alignment to client expectations of firmware, firmware solutions and AI-enabled embedded programs using Agile/Hybrid methodologies., • Be the Single point of Contact for the programs, aligning the onshore and offshore teams to the client’s roadmaps and priorities, • Define clear program and team-level roadmaps, aligning deliverables to strategic objectives and KPIs., • Establish strong governance: track milestones, dependencies, risks, and resource plans; take corrective action on deviations., • Act as the primary escalation point, ensuring rapid triage, root-cause analysis, and resolution. Execution, Delivery Metrics • Take ownership of onboarding the right teams for the programs based on the skillsets needed, • Track and report planned vs. actuals across scope, schedule, cost, and quality with a data-driven mindset., • Drive governance meeting with client stakeholders; Ensure real-time visibility into development progress, bugs, fixes, incidents, and ticket resolutions., • Maintain accurate program artifacts including project plans, status reports, risk logs, and metrics dashboards., • Ensure all project and program metrics are defined, measured, and used to drive continuous improvement. Technical Team Leadership • Provide sufficient technical depth in embedded firmware, firmware solutions and agentic SDLC to unblock teams and mitigate delivery bottlenecks., • Guide teams across architecture alignment, integration challenges, quality governance, and release readiness., • Act as a liaison between the global delivery teams, program leadership and other external teams, including CoEs and Circles, to unblock dependencies, • Support resource planning, capacity tracking, and development of high-performing, global delivery teams. Stakeholder, Customer Management • Serve as a trusted, customer-facing leader, articulating program status, risks, and decisions clearly to engineering, business, and executive stakeholders., • Build strong client relationships, manage expectations, and represent engineering delivery with confidence and transparency., • Interface seamlessly with offshore delivery units & program leadership Required Qualifications: • 20+ years of experience in product engineering or services, with 10+ years in program/delivery leadership roles., • Proven track record delivering complex firmware / embedded systems programs, including hardware–software integration., • Strong understanding of embedded SDLC, agentic or AI-augmented development processes, and Agile/Hybrid models., • Demonstrated ability to unblock teams technically, manage ambiguity, and make fast, high-quality decisions., • Excellent executive-level communication, reporting, and stakeholder management skills., • Experience with global delivery models., • Native Spanish speaking., • Strong command over English. About Us: Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to _ With Ascendion (_), you: • Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering., • At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients., • Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.